Data Platform Architect

About the Role

TailorCare is a value-based musculoskeletal (MSK) care platform combining clinical expertise, digital tools, and a yield-based operating model. We are now operationalizing Operating Model 3.0, a shift from uniform delivery to yield-based alignment, in which every patient receives investment proportional to a real-time Yield Score (Probability × Value × Addressability), and an ROI Gate continuously calibrates Wallet (financial investment) and Muscle (operational intensity).

This requires a data and AI platform that ingests, resolves, scores, decides, and acts in minutes, with the explainability and governance healthcare demands. You will lead that build: set the strategy, design the data platform, drive vendor decisions, and partner with engineering, product, clinical, and operations leadership to deliver it. This is a hybrid strategy-and-architecture role reporting to the Director, Data; you will move comfortably from a CTO whiteboard conversation to an EDI 837 parser to a model-evaluation review without losing the thread.

Primary Responsibilities

• Set strategy. Own the multi-year data strategy supporting Operating Model optimization and TailorCare’s extension beyond MSK; frame tradeoffs for the executive team; protect strategic data moats (canonical patient and provider graphs, proprietary outcome labels, and contribute to yield-calibrated decisioning IP)
• Architect the platform end-to-end. Ingestion, event bus, identity resolution, lakehouse, feature store, ROI Gate decisioning, action orchestration, observability. Define the event taxonomy, schema registry, and data contracts that govern how every source flows in
• Lead vendor strategy. Evaluate and select across clearinghouses, clinical networks, claims systems, provider intelligence, conversational AI, CDPs, and more, negotiating export rights, schema stability, and contribute to defining BAA scope. Build payer-neutral patterns from day one
• Set the bar for HIPAA, PHI, and AI governance. Classification at ingestion, field-level access controls, infrastructure-level scrubbing, vendor data governance, training-data lineage, and consent chains.
• Partner across functions. Translate architecture into staffed delivery with each engineering team; collaborate with clinical leadership on Patient Reported Outcome, extraction accuracy, and outcome labels; work with operations to make the intake and data aggregation meaningful.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 10+ years working with healthcare data, including 4+ years in architecture or strategy leadership
• Deep hands-on knowledge of healthcare data: X12 EDI (270/271/276/277/278/834/835/837), FHIR R4, HL7 v2 (especially ADT), CCD/C-CDA, NCPDP, and the realities of integrating with payers, EHRs, clearinghouses, and HIEs
• Experience working with AI team developing predictive models and ability to act as the liaison between AI modeling and data platform.
• Proven track record designing production data platforms at scale, streaming and batch, with managed Kafka or equivalent, lakehouse architectures (Snowflake / Databricks / BigQuery), dbt-style orchestration, modern observability
• Solid grounding in ML/AI systems: feature stores, point-in-time correctness, model lifecycle, NLP for clinical text. You evaluate model proposals on their merits
• Direct experience with patient identity resolution (deterministic + probabilistic) and tokenization (Datavant or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of value-based care economics: MLR, attribution, episode costing, risk adjustment, and how reimbursement models shape data requirements
• Demonstrated executive presence: framing tradeoffs, defending recommendations, adjusting when wrong, staying technically credible
• HIPAA-fluent. You engineer PHI minimization, BAA structures, and audit requirements as first-class concerns
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% as needed for onsite meetings, team collaboration, and company events. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with at least one major longitudinal claims dataset (Komodo, Truveta, HealthVerity, Optum, IQVIA) and integration
• Highly collaborative and experienced with a broad range of business holders
• Experience integrating clinical data networks
• Experience with conversational AI in a contact-center context (Cresta, Observe.AI, or built in-house)
• Multi-payer scale experience
• Early-stage / scaling startup background, comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make calls without perfect information

What you will deliver in year one

• Be a key leader in driving build vs. buy data acquisition decisions
• Canonical patient master service in production; ≥95% deterministic match rate, documented probabilistic strategy
• Real-time event bus with ≥10 production event types, SLO dashboards, and downstream consumers live
• Real-time ADT, eligibility (270/271) and prior-auth (278) integrations live with sub-second response
• Salesforce (TailorCare-captured) clinical operational data fully instrumented
• Clinical data network integration (Health Gorilla or Particle) with NLP extraction on radiology and specialist notes
• ROI Gate v1 deployed, routing ≥80% of newly-identified patients; closed-loop attribution from marketing to outcome operational